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Old Jul 25, 2008 | 5:12 am
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OK, so I now have a really smart phone--an iPhone!

However, it's hard to follow FT from it. Otherwise, you couldn't get me off of here! (That's probably a good thing...)

The wireless version (the WAP one) still suffers from the problem I mentioned in the last post (and several others mentioned before me)--namely, that there is no way to go to the first unread post and you must go through several different screens to get to the last page.

The full version displays beautifully (although sometimes it's hard to read the text, because the iPhone doesn't resize/rewrap text columns, so in order to zoom in far enough to read clearly, you have to then continually scroll left and right at each line break), but it a) loads slowly over EDGE (waiting for HSDPA up here) and b) there is no way to force FT to open clicked threads in a new window and preferably in the background (there is no way to do this internally on the iPhone, so you are stuck navigating forward and back, which really slows down my FT "workflow," especially because the iPhone's cache is pretty badly designed and it often reloads pages when navigating forward and back).

Some of it is due to Apple's software design (i.e. the lack of an "open link in new window" option and the bad cache) and some of it could be improved by a better wireless interface on FT, but whatever can be done to improve usage on the iPhone would be very welcome and awesome!
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